A new epiphany

Saidu Bangura, Praia, April 20, 2024.

We have moaned
we have mourned
in all the dawns that have ever dawned
in all the false epiphanies we have seen
in this hurt land of the duo kaleidoscopic
changes that never mitigated the people’s
moaning and mourning in this debilitated
land that is constantly bleeding, groaning;
this land, a natural allure that can only be
falsely personified, imperfectly replicated;
a metaphor of the mutilation of hopefulness,
a conceit of wealth not translated in our lives.

We quietly complain
we gently groan
we fearfully question
we comfortably wait for a miracle to happen
we calmly wait for a Moses to lead us through
this dark wilderness, this endless hopelessness
designed and sustained by the conjoined twins
as our people suffocate under the duo colours
that we have perennially chosen our reps from,
the reps who have inhumanely mistreated us,
the reps who are worse than the white vultures.

This April 27
we clamour for a new epiphany
we want to shout eureka this April 27
in the reflection of the day we claim gave us hope
a hope that has hopelessly made us sufferers
wounded our pride, and gave us a begging bowl
carried by the reps from the duo colours we have,
a forever begging people from a land of resources:
we clamour for a new epiphany this April 27 –
the light of our new epiphany must light up
this April 27!